Video: Working with transitions and animation

As we have seen throughout this course, InDesign has a lot of great features for adding interactivity to your documents. Unfortunately, some of those features are incompatible with each other, for example, page transitions and animation. It would seem natural that you might want to combine the use of these two features in the same file, but if you do, you'll probably not like the result. Let's see what happens when we combine page transitions and animation. So here is my presentation file and I can see by the presence of these circled icons that some animation has been applied. So I'll select one of them, go to my Animation panel and I can see that this Reason No.

Join Adobe InDesign and publishing expert Mike Rankin as he explains how to use InDesign to design a wide range of digital documents, including interactive PDFs and apps for the iPad. This course provides a tour of digital publishing trends and shows how to bring these trends to bear in various projects, such as a slide presentation, a PDF form, and an interactive portfolio. Mike also introduces the Adobe Digital Publishing Suite and shows how to publish dynamic interactive documents to the iPad and other mobile devices.

Working with transitions and animation

As we have seen throughout this course, InDesign has a lot of great features foradding interactivity to your documents.Unfortunately, some of those features are incompatible with each other, forexample, page transitions and animation.It would seem natural that you might want to combine the use of these twofeatures in the same file, but if you do, you'll probably not like the result.Let's see what happens when we combine page transitions and animation.So here is my presentation file and I can see by the presence of these circledicons that some animation has been applied.So I'll select one of them, go to my Animation panel and I can see that this Reason No.

is set to Fade In on Page Load.If I select the Text Frame, that's set to Fly in from Bottom on Page Load.Let's add some transitions to this document.So I'll go to that Page Transitions panel and right now there are none in thedocument, I'll select one, I'll choose push with the direction of Up, and I canpreview. So each one of the pages as I navigate to it, will push up from thebottom, pushing the old page out of view.I'll click on the icon in the bottom right corner to apply this to all spreads,and now let's export this document to a SWF file.

I'll call it transitions, and in the dialog box, I'll make sure that I export AllPages, I'll Generate an HTML File, I'll View the SWF after Exporting, and forPage Transitions, I'll include those from the document, and click OK.So watch what happens when I navigate to one of my pages. Did you see that?When the page pushed up, both the number and the text were fully visible andthen the animations played, the number faded in and the text came up.

Let's watch another page.So InDesign has to fully render the page for the transition and then it willplay the animations that you created.Now you might think you could fix this by going back to InDesign and tweakingsome of your animation settings.So let's go back to InDesign, we'll look in the Animation panel and youmight think okay, well, maybe if I change the event from On Page Load to OnPage Click, I'd have better control over it, or if I hid the object bychanging the Visibility to Hide Until Animated, but neither one of these isgoing to solve the problem.

InDesign is still going to render a fully-visible version of the page and thenit will play the animations.It's just the way it works.So the story here is that you can have animations and you can have a pagetransitions, but you can't have them at the same time.It's a frustrating limitation, but it's good to be aware of, so you don't wastetime trying around it by tweaking your animation settings.

Q: I'm following along with the movie "Using a SWF slideshow in a PDF," but when I go to the Tools menu in Acrobat, there is no Multimedia option. Can you help me complete the tutorial?

A: With each new version of Acrobat, Adobe seems to enjoy moving commands to different menus, and sometimes renaming them. To remove the background in Acrobat XI, take the Selection tool (black arrow) and right-click anywhere in the window and choose Properties. This opens the Edit SWF dialog box where you can select Transparent Background in the Launch Settings. You can do the same thing by choosing Tools > Interactive Objects > Select Object and then double clicking anywhere on the SWF.

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